THE
ARTS
OF THE
GILDED AGE
Mr. Johnson
APUSH
The Gilded Age

Mark Twain
The Gilded Age
I. Poets & Writers
Walt Whitman


Democratic Vistas
Leaves of Grass
O
Captain, My
Captain
 I Sing the Body
Electric
 Song of Myself
Stephen Crane

Maggie: A Girl of the
Streets
 Naturalism
 Women,

slum life
The Red Badge of
Courage
 Civil
War
Edward Bellamy

Looking Backward
 Utopian
socialism
William Dean
Howells

The Rise of Silas
Lapham
 Rags
to riches
 Materialism vs.
morality
Mark Twain

The Gilded Age
 Economics

The Mysterious
Stranger
 Religious

satire
Anti-Imperialist League
 U.S.

& politics
foreign policy
Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer
 Popular
works
II. Visual Artists
John Singer
Sargent
Portraits
Portraits
A Dinner Table at Night
A Street in
Venice
James McNeill
Whistler
Arrangement in Grey & Black No. 1
“Peacock Room”
Mary Cassatt
Tea
The Bath
Margot in
Blue
Winslow Homer
The Bathers
Gloucester Harbor
The Red Canoe
Albert Pinkham
Ryder
Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens
The Dead Bird
Death on a Pale Horse
III. The Ashcan School
George Bellows
The Cliff Dwellers
Steaming
Street
A Stag at Sharkey’s
Both Members of This Club
John French
Sloan
McSorley’s Bar
Century Magazine
IV. Victorian Homes
Queen Victoria


1819-1901
Queen of England
 Opulence
 Public
morality
Saitta House

Brooklyn, NY
Steinbeck House, Salinas, CA
Carson Mansion, Eureka, CA
Physick Estate, Cape May, NJ
Winchester “Mystery” House, San Jose, CA
Winchester
“Mystery” House
Winchester
“Mystery” House
V. Architects
Richard Morris
Hunt
Vanderbilt House, Newport, RI
Marquand Chapel, New Haven, CT
Henry Hobson
Richardson
State Asylum, Buffalo, NY
Trinity Church,
Boston, MA
Louis Sullivan
People’s Federal S&L, Sidney, OH
Jewel Box,
Grinnell, Iowa
Wainwright Building, Chicago, IL
Transportation Building, Chicago, IL
Chandelier